Oh man ... this guy. Just started listening to everything by him I can get a hold of. I was familiar with the oldies radio standbys but he is mindblowingly Classic pretty much across the board, eh? Just great.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah, he seems to be in the class of singer that can sing anything and make it his own. He has some weird personality quirks that take some getting used to, mainly a Robbie Robertson-like tendency to take too much credit - “I told Tom Wilson to overdub electric guitars on a Dylan song and invented folk rock!,” “It was actually me who gave up my seat on the crop duster to Buddy Holly after the Winter Dance Party!” - but none of that seems to creep into his music in any deleterious way.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Also, feel like I always heard much more about Bobby Darin’s folk rock move than Dion’s but seem to be more drawn to the latter now that I know it exists.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Here is an article about that which I haven’t read properly yet but seems of interest: https://web.musicaficionado.com/main/article/was_folk_rock_a_mistake_for_dion_and_bobby_darin_by_jimallen
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the link! Latest MOJO has a big piece/new interview with him as well.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/29/530199966/doo-wop-singer-dion-pays-homage-to-his-musical-influences
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
Dig his new Xmas song with Amy Grant. Haven’t listened to the one with Joe Bonamassa yet.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs)
Which is the one where he performs in a big public square in Germany or somewhere with the audience clapping along in rhythm? I heard a story about the filming of this scene, where they kept doing take after take because something felt 'off', but they couldn't identify what... And eventually they figured out the German extras were clapping in 3/1
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Dion or Bobby Darin?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
It's actually a good time to get that 3-CD box set King Of The New York Streets. Originally released in 2000, it fell out-of-print and became a pricey collector's item, but with the deflation of the CD market, it's not hard to find bargain used copies that go for far less than the original retail price. There are some Columbia-era gems that I wish had been included, but it collects pretty much all of the hits and best-known tracks. The bulk of disc three isn't quite as good, but even in the '90s, his voice was still in excellent form. (The doo wop re-arrangement of Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind" is marvelous.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Used to have that, and yeah, your review is accurate.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
Also seek his doo-wop version of “Book of Dreams”!
― Sam Weller, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link